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| 17564 | Mount Desert Island |
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Description: A videotape of show #8475, Martha Stewart Living, television, created July 19, 2000. | |
| 17548 | Peapods of the Maine Coast |
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Description: A DVD that contains interviews with 12 individuals who have knowledge of the Peapod, a small Maine built wooden skiff. The DVD also contains photographs, plans, slideshows, construction information, and records of many of the existing wooden skiffs. | |
| 1547 | The Mirror of Maine |
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Description: This is an annotated and illustrated bibliography of 100 books "that reveal the history of the state and the life of its people." | |
| 3456 | Marathon Advertising Card |
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Description: 4x9 card to advertise marathon. Thank you to 2012 contributors | |||
| 3760 | "Not a Level Field in Town...Yet to Farming We Were Bound" A History of Agriculture on Mount Desert Island |
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Description: Black Binder: Excerpts from Gertrude Carroll Diary, 1891-1893. Notes about Stone Barn Farm, Crooked Rd., Bar Harbor. Notes & photos about Harold "Cap" Whitney Farm: Fair Acres. Howe C. Smith Farm, Salisbury Cove--in photos Hanscom Family harvesting hay, Hulls Cove, 1942 Miscellaneous Farm Photos: Sargent Farm, Norway Dr.;Andrews Farm Truck; Clark's Dairy; Oxen Team at Salisbury Farm (Acadia Farm); Richardson Dairy Farm Folders: with poster for exhibit with info. about loans for exhibit. with planning notes and photocopies of photos #1: Sam and George Gilley Haying at Gilley Brook Haying at Hadlock Field, Cranberry Isles Harvesting Fresh Water Marsh Hay at Little Long Pond, Seal Harbor Albert Hanscom, cutting hay for Helen Strout in Hulls Cove, 1942 #2: Layout of Carroll Farm Carroll Farm Barn Layout Hay Straddle, drawing by Heather Sisk #3: Certificate of ownership, Mt. Desert Island Dairies, Inc. (1935)--copy [show more] | |||
| 3762 | Canneries of MDI |
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Description: Includes notice of oral history program on Canning Industry on Mount Desert, information about a slide lecture and round table discussion about Women in the Canning Industry. Photographs of exterior and interior of (Stinson?) Canning factory, Prospect Harbor, Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley ME. Photocopies of Masts and Masters, a brief history of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen by John D. Gilman; Sardine History by John D. Toft. Biographical info. about Mary Louise Mitchell by her granddaughter Carol Reed Walsh. Mrs. Mitchell worked in the sardine factory. Obituary of Rachel Gott Francis, fish packer, by Nan Lincoln. List of packers, managers, and other employees at Underwood. [show more] | |||
| 3764 | Granite Motions: Quarrying History on Mount Desert Island |
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Description: Background info., planning notes, photographs of exhibit, photocopy of Tombstones and Paving Blocks: the History of the Maine Granite Industry by Roger L. Grindle, photocopy of the Granites of Maine by T. Nelson Dale, photocopy of 1902 annual report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, other exhibit notes. | |||
| 3844 | Events 2009 |
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Description: Women in Conversation, Mar. 26, 2009: Turning Dreams into Practical Conservation Projects. Hoops Around the Island, April 16, 2009, Basketball on MDI with Jack Gilley, Ray (Razor) Gray, Dennis Damon, Steve Parady, Burt Barker, Melissa Gott; Bill Baker, moderator. School Consolidation, One of MDI's Great Controversies, April 28, 2009 Ledgelawn Cemetery, with Tom Vining, June 7, 2009. Bastille Day, Among Fabulous Antique Cars, with Seal Cove Auto Museum, July 14, 2009. Inside Seal Harbor: Guided Tours of Cottages, Clubs & Church, July 20 and Aug. 7, 2009: St. Judes's, Harbor Club, Long Pond, "Wayside," library, "Sea Bench," Yacht Club. Boat Building Industry: Can it Survive? July 22, 2009. With panelists Ralph Stanley, Phil Bennett (Hinckley), Jock Williams, Lee Wilbur, Cuyler Morris and Alan Sprague, co-host of Boat Talk on WERU Radio. Boat Builders Tour: 8 Boat Yards, Aug. 14, 2009 Charles A. Townsend's Mount Desert: Early 20th Century Real-Photo Postcards of the Island, Sept. 15, 2009. Talk by Earle G. Shettleworth. Annual Meeting: Dr. David Hackett Fischer, "Islanders in Time: Family, Friends and Neighbors on MDI--How Our Associations Have Changed, Aug. 23, 2009. Acadia's Carriage Roads and Bridges, July 27, 2009, with Paul Richardson [show more] | |||
| 3845 | Events 2008 |
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Description: Two Island Gardens: Asticou Azalea and Thuya, May 18, 2008. Women in the Fishing Industry (with SW Harbor Library), Mar. 27, 2008: Kristina Stanley, Stephanie Alley, Val Peacock, Linda Musson, Peg Morse, Holly Smallidge, Holly Masterson, Juanita Stanley, Kim Young, Wilhelmina Brouwer, Genealogy Workshop with Thomas Vining, Ralph Stanley, Elaine Fernald, Sheldon Goldthwait, Patti Leland-Hanson, Patricia Ray. Panel and workshop. June 29, 2008 Cemetery Walk, Forest Hill Cemetery, Northeast Harabor, July 20, 2008. Inside Seal Harbor, July 24, 2008: Harbor Club, Holy Family Church, "Wayside," Library, Seal Harbor Yacht Club, "Craig Knowe," with Anne Funderburk. Mount Desert Rocks with Geologist Bill Clark, July 27, 2008. (Geology) Petite Plaisance, July 29, 2008. (Marguerite Yourcenar) Gott's Island, Aug. 16, 23. Home of Ruth Moore. God's Many Corners, the Churches of MDI, Aug. 22, 2008. Diving for Urchins, Scallops &Other Treasures with 'Diver Ed." Aug. 17, 2008 Louisa VAughan Conrad Garden Dedication, Aug. 20, 2008, Somesville Museum Field Trip to Great Duck Island with Peter Blanchard, Aug. 21, 2008 [show more] | |||
| 3846 | Events 2007 |
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Description: Somesville and Its Secrets (walking tour of historic homes, buildings, Brookside Cemetery; dams and mills), Aug. 11 Fishing and the Future of Island Communities, with Ted Ames, Mar. 25 "Us and Them": Summer People and the Mainers Who Worked for Them, April 29 with Pamela Dean, Archivist, U of Maine, April 29, Somesville Firehouse Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine, a conversation with Neil Rolde, May 23. Fire of ;47, June 24 Movie Nights with Bill Baker, Hollywood inthe 1930s, Aug. 17: End of the Silent Era, Top Hat with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Footage from Fire of 1947, Bar Harbor Express and Hancock Ferries, Easy Street with Charlie Chaplin, June 23, with Bill Baker Field Trip to Great Duck Island with Peter Blanchard, Agu. 21 Historic Homes Tour- August Gardens of Kykuit, slide-lecture by Ann Rockefeller Roberts and Mary Louise Pierson, in honor of Louisa Kennedy, August 23 Exploring MDI's Past, Acadia Senior College Class, Fall 2007: Gilded Age, Island Industries, Landscapes and Gardens, Places that Aren't, Biological Research on MDI, Acadia National Park Discover Hall Quarry, Sept. 29 Three Historic Homes: Seal Harbor (Craigstone), Pretty Marsh, Somesville, Oct. 5. [show more] | |||
| 3847 | Barn Tour (2006) |
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Description: An entire binder devoted to planning,volunteers, tickets,poster distribution, sponsors, owners, and names/descriptions of the barns. | |||
| 3848 | Events 2006 |
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Description: Excursions to Placentia and Pond Islands, Aug. 14 & Aug. 23, with Peter Blanchard. Also on Sept.17. (See 013.FIC.36B.14 for photos of this program trip) Steam to the Summit, Green Mountain Railway, with Peter Dow Bachelder, Aug. 12 Corner with a Past (Peabody Drive and Route 198, Northeast Harbor), Feb. 24 Barn Tour, Aug. 5 Early Broadsides and Mass Advertising, July 28, Jerry Miller and Raymond Strout, held at Union Church, NE Harbor Annual Meeting, David Hales, new COA Presidenet, Sept. 13, and photograph exhibit Good Fences: Stories and Pictures of New England's Stone Walls, William Hubell, Oct. 7, Somesville Firehouse Christmas Readings at Port in a Storm, by Moorhead Kennedy,December [show more] | |||
| 3849 | Events 2005 |
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Description: Moonlit Graveyard Walk, Aug. 16, Brookside Cemetery with Thomas Vining Wildlife of MDI with Ruth Grierson, Feb. 4 Creating a Timeline Garden, Master Gardener Lee Fay, June 17 Planting a Period Garden: Kitchen and Ornamental Gardens of the Early 19th Century, Christie Higginbottom of Old Sturbridge Village, Mass. Fred Savage Homes (in connection with publication of book by John Bryan) With Port in a Storm bookstore. Art Exhibition (Acadia Summer Art Program) and Fiddle Concert with Ralph Stanley & Friends, Aug. 4 "Hard Work": Maine's Working Women in the 19th Century, brown bag lunchtime film (by Jim Sharkey) and discussion, Feb. 18 Collecting American Art: A Personal History, John Wilmerding, Sept. 6 Fernald Point Picnic and Annual Meeting, Sept. 25 [show more] | |||
| 2388 | Old Light Green Bottle |
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Description: This light green bottle (soft mint color) is 8 inches high with a circumference of almost 8 inches. The height of the neck is about 2 inches. At the center of the base is a stamped mark which looks like a zero in a square. The bottle has 12 faces, each one measuring about 11/16s. There are several scratch marks. There is no top present. | |||
| 2392 | Bayer Company Glass Bottle without a top |
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Description: This clear glass bottle has the letters The Bayer Company, Inc written vertically on the sides. It is 2 and three quarters high and has a circumference of 4 and a quarter inches. The bottle is missing a top and has some dark stains on one side. | |||
| 2532 | Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, volume IX 2008 |
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Description: Chebacco, volume IX 2008 Investing in Acadia: The Invisible Hand of John Stewart Kennedy by William J. Baker Centre? Center? What and When Was That? by Raymond E. Robbins, Jr. Fraternal Organizations on Mount Desert Island by William J. Skocpol Northeast Harbor Delivered: Provisioning the Carriage Trade by Meredith Hutchins Island Poems, Prose & Drawings by Candice Stover, Betsy Alexander, Les Menard, Edward W. Evans Local Color: A Winter Industries Family: the Smallidges of Northeast Harbor by Charlotte Singleton Memories of the Fire of '47 by Robert Patterson, Sr.,, Jack Russell [show more] | |||
| 2717 | Obituaries |
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Description: Obituaries of B. J. Morrison (Betty Jane), Chester E. Clement, Nelson Collins Leland, Louine Lunt Peck, Lawrence C. Hadley, Harold W. Walls, Eleanor Hallowell Lippincott, Ann Harbourt Raup, Marion A. Sargent, Adra E. Tarbell, first secretary of Acadia National Park, Jack Harkins, John Heliker, Mary Diane Carroll, Cary Chaplin, Anna Flagg Johnston Wellington, Duard E. Garver, Julie Crofoot, Joan Staats Anna Scott Kennedy, Julia B. Smith, Robert E. Blum, Harry Spurling, John Heliker Evan Bryan White, Charlton Yarnall, Grace Tracy Reed Rachel Carroll Phalen, Thomas H. Maren, T. Dennie Pratt Verna Hodgdon, Charles Eliot Pierce [show more] | |||
| 7210 | Pooler Barn, Door Detail |
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| 7211 | Parker Farm Barn |
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Description: Built in 1842, but not in use as working farm for many years. Frequently a site for weddings; in the beginning of Somesville's development this farm occupied the whole south end of the harbor, where cows roamed the cleared woods. | ||
| 7213 | Higgins Barn, Oak Hill Rd. |
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Description: Constructed in 1810 and named for original owner; placed on National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The one-story timber-framed English barn is one of the finest examples of this style and of barn craftmanship. Ichabod Higgins's family moved to MDI from Cape Cod in 1778 to settle in the small Island community of Somesville. Not until the early 1800's did this ridge of land outside the village become and agricultural area. The barn has been in continuous use since its construction. [show more] | ||
| 7214 | McCue Barn |
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Description: Queen Anne style; attached to 1830's center-chimney cape house; located on Beech Hill Road, once the main road from Somesville to Southwest Harbor. | ||
| 7215 | Peterson Barn |
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Description: Formerly known as Gray's Farm Dairy; gambrel roofed. Once at the heart of the farm district which fed the Bar Harbor rusticators; barn no longer used for agriculture. Taken during Barns of Yesterday tour | ||
| 2300 | MDI Historical Society Garden |
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Description: Photographs and negatives of the instillation of the Somesville Bridge | ||
| 12333 | Sound School House |
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| 12432 | The Creation and Growth of Acadia National Park |
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Description: Copy 1 (for the archives) of Paul Richardson's manuscript about Acadia National Park with particular emphasis on the carriage roads and bridges and their construction. Includes a map and pictures and an appendix with a description and technical information on all carriage road bridges. A bibliography and index are included. "A Gift from Paul S. and Dorothy L. Richardson to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society." Fifty copies were given to the Historical Society for distribution locally. [show more] |
